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William
J. Nichols COLFAX
— William J. Nichols, 75, of Colfax died Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Veterans
Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. at
Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Colfax with
the Rev. William Jenkins Jr. officiating. Burial will be at Colfax Cemetery. Friends
may call after noon Sunday at the funeral home where the family will be prevent
from 2 to 4 p.m. The
son of Walter and Cassie M. Miller Nichols, he was born March
29, 1926, in Pershing. On July 9, 1976, he married Delores Shepley in Oklahoma.
He was a cook for the Veterans
Hospital in Knoxville and lived
in Colfax for the past 38 years. Survivors
include his wife; four sons and three daughters-in-law, James William and Barb
of Knoxville, John William and Barb of Attica, Albert Miller of Boone and Robert
William and Joan of Des Moines; four daughters and three sons-in-law, Beatrice
and Ron Hensel of Des Moines, Maria Jo Wishmeyer of Knoxville, Kay and Bob
Thomas of Harvey and Christina and Lloyd Heston of New Virginia; 21
grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; a sister. Rosalie Davies of Mason, Ariz.,
and two step-sons and daughters-in-law, William and Katie Nelson of Pleasant
Hill and Ronald and Sue Breese of Des Moines. He
was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a stepdaughter. Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, October 12, 2001. |
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